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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs by then to complement their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs by then to complement their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though ships]]; in other words, they're the ugliest ships aesthetically speaking, [[WhatAPieceOfJunk but don't judge them by their looks alone]]: they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs then to complement their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs by then to complement their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.
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** The Boron are essentially the [[StarWars Mon Calamari]] but with a squid-like appearance and lacking the iron resolve and prowess that the Mon Calamari are touted for.

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** The Boron are essentially the [[StarWars Mon Calamari]] Calamari]], but with a squid-like appearance and lacking the iron resolve and prowess that the Mon Calamari are touted for.
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** The Boron are essentially the [[StarWars Mon Calamari]] but with a [[SquidPeople squid-like]] appearance and lacking the iron resolve and prowess that the Mon Calamari are touted for.

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** The Boron are essentially the [[StarWars Mon Calamari]] but with a [[SquidPeople squid-like]] squid-like appearance and lacking the iron resolve and prowess that the Mon Calamari are touted for.
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** The Boron are essentially the [[StarWars Mon Calamari]] but with a [[SquidPeople squid-like]] appearance and lacking the iron resolve and prowess that the Mon Calamari are touted for.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs then to compliment their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs then to compliment complement their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs then to compliment their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs then to compliment their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, on the other hand, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Terran ships, despite being the most advanced ships, [[http://i.imgur.com/SyPVb.jpg don't look much more advanced than the modern Space Shuttle]] -- just a lot more clean and streamlined. This becomes particularly egregious by the time the 2900s (Terran Conflict) take place, since they should already have sleeker and more visually appealing designs then to compliment their [[TechnologyMarchesOn supposedly advanced technology]]. The Paranid, the second-most advanced race, use [[http://i.imgur.com/VG130.jpg very high-tech looking ships]] with lots of curves and shiny hulls. The Teladi, who buy or reverse engineer all their technology from the other races and use lower tech weaponry, have [[http://i.imgur.com/Z17s7.jpg cobbled-together ships]], though they are usually just as effective as the other race's ships. The Pirates on the other hand, use scavenged and spot-repaired ships, with their capital ships cobbled together from the hulks of old transporter ships, and it shows when you look at their stats - almost all the Pirate ships have terrible stats compared to the original race's ships. Boron ships ''look'' like they ought to be superior to everything else, but really only excel as transports.
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: NPC Solar Power Plants will continue to run even if they run out of Crystals. Without this, it would be entirely possible for the game economy to grind to a halt if too many Crystal Fabs were destroyed.
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* ContinuityNod: The introduction to ''X3: Terran Conflict'' shows a fleet of Xenon capital ships flying towards Earth from the surface of the moon - the same scene shown a decade before in ''X: Beyond The Frontier'''s introduction
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* EvilIsNotWellLit: The main pirate sector, Loomanckstrat's Strategy, is the only sector in the game with no sun - making the sector extremely dark. In ''Xtended'', poor lighting is the [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color coding scheme]] for Pirate sectors.
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** In ''Xtended Terran Conflict'', race sectors are typically color coded via background nebula. Argon sectors are blue, Boron are aquamarine/green, Teladi sectors are yellow/green, Paranid sectors are gold/yellow, Split sectors are red, and Aldrin sectors are gold/bronze. Terran and Pirate sectors have no general color scheme, however.

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** In ''Xtended Terran Conflict'', race sectors are typically color coded via background nebula. Argon sectors are blue, Boron are aquamarine/green, Teladi sectors are yellow/green, Paranid sectors are gold/yellow, Split sectors are red, and Aldrin sectors are gold/bronze. Terran and Pirate sectors have no general color scheme, however. scheme but typically have very bright suns and ''very'' colorful planets or nebula, whereas Pirate sectors are typically [[EvilIsNotWellLit dark]]
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* BloodSport: The Split are fond of arena deathmatchs. Taken to the next level in ''Xtended'', where the Split have created an incredibly violent version of the ''TheCannonballRun'' [[RecycledInSpace in space]]. A random set of checkpoints are given to the racers at the start of the race, and they must fly through the checkpoints. Any time a pilot doesn't fire on another race when they have the opportunity, they lose points. When the winner crosses the finish line, all the racing ships will explode after 7 seconds. Because it has such a high mortality rate, the Split have declared it the [[ItsTheBestWhateverEver best sport ever]].
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*** There is also the possibility of acquiring a station building mission to build a Flak Artillery Array. Should you have the resources, it would be advisable to take them up on their offer.
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** The [[HealingShiv Repair Laser]]. Free repairs? Hell yes! Except the repair laser restores hull points so slowly that anything bigger than a fighter will take upwards of twenty minutes to fix - and that's with hopping in and out of the ship to cancel the recharge time.
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** The Kha'ak are essentially the X-Universe's version of the [[VideoGame/{{Elite}} Thargoids]].
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* CurbStompBattle: The final mission of ''Reunion'' has the Paranid activating their new jump gate in the middle of the largest Kha'ak attack the universe has ever seen. Then the Terran fleet begins to pour out of the gate and ''stomp'' the Kha'ak into the ground. They then set up a blockade around the gate to prevent anyone from reaching Earth, which is guarded by ''thousands'' of ships and the [[BigDumbObject Torus Aeternal]]. In ''Reunion'', the Terran ships are apocalyptically powerful, capable of shredding anything they come across. Even when they were nerfed for ''Terran Conflict'', they are ''still'' incredibly powerful, leading to Terran capital ships typically ripping apart Argon capital ships in ''Albion Prelude''.
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* {{Flanderization}}: ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' ramps up each race's [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. The Paranid are even more fanatical, the Terrans are even bigger jackasses, and the Split are even more sectional and clannish.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''X: Beyond The Frontier'', you were limited to piloting one ship, the X-perimental Shuttle, the interface was clunky and confusing, ships had no defenses beyond shields, trading and building was seriously limited, and combat was very simplistic. The series didn't really hit its stride until ''The Threat''.
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** M2 destroyers as player ships, because they're too slow and can't carry a fighter for use as a captain's yacht (for docking at stations without capital ship docking clamps). Most players prefer high-end M6 corvettes (which don't ''need'' a captain's yacht), M7 frigates (versatile, not horrifically slow, and many can carry a small number of fighters), or the fastest of the M1 carriers (ditto).

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** M2 destroyers as player ships, because they're too slow and can't carry a fighter for use as a captain's yacht (for docking at stations without capital ship docking clamps). Most players prefer high-end M6 corvettes (which don't ''need'' a captain's yacht), M7 frigates (versatile, not horrifically horrendously slow, and many can carry a small number of fighters), or the fastest of the M1 carriers (ditto).
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* AlliterativeName: Several of the starting scenarios use these for their titles, such as "Suicidal Squid", "Tormented Teladi", and "Lost Lar".

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* AIIsACrapshoot: The modern-day Xenon are descended from the Terraformers, originally built by the Terrans to terraform worlds. After a badly-written ''software update'' they begin to 'terraform' people, cities, and stations. Eventually they [[spoiler:gained true sentience]]. This is why you bug-check your changes before you implement them, people.

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The modern-day Xenon are descended from the Terraformers, originally built by the Terrans to terraform worlds. After a badly-written ''software update'' they begin to 'terraform' people, cities, and stations. Eventually they [[spoiler:gained true sentience]]. This is why you bug-check your changes before you implement them, people.people.
** Non-bugged AGI is human-friendly, however, as the Aldrinites can testify. And [[FlipFlopOfGod according to some sources]], the aforementioned software update was sabotaged by an engineer angry about the cancellation of the terraformer program, after which he would be unemployed.



** The trailer for ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlAWC2HSOYM Nautilus]]'', a fake film set in the ''X-Universe'' about Squiddy [=McSquid=] came out on April Fools' Day.

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** The trailer for ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlAWC2HSOYM Nautilus]]'', a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake film film]] set in the ''X-Universe'' about Squiddy [=McSquid=] came out on April Fools' Day.

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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In ''Xtended Terran Conflict'', race sectors are typically color coded via background nebula. Argon sectors are blue, Boron are aquamarine/green, Teladi sectors are yellow/green, Paranid sectors are gold/yellow, Split sectors are red, and Aldrin sectors are gold/bronze. Terran and Pirate sectors have no general color scheme, however.

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In ''Xtended Terran Conflict'', race sectors are typically color coded via background nebula. Argon sectors are blue, Boron are aquamarine/green, Teladi sectors are yellow/green, Paranid sectors are gold/yellow, Split sectors are red, and Aldrin sectors are gold/bronze. Terran and Pirate sectors have no general color scheme, however.



* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Supposedly the fate suffered by the Kha'ak homeworld, whose fragments form the Nividium asteroids scattered about.]]

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[[spoiler:Supposedly the fate suffered by the Kha'ak homeworld, homeworld care of a gamma ray burster, whose fragments form the Nividium asteroids scattered about.]]
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** There's some discussion about this in the forums. The fandom's consensus is that the ships ''do'' have crews; they're just invisible PlayerMooks.

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** [[http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=329422 There's some discussion about this in the forums. forums.]] The fandom's consensus is that the ships ''do'' have crews; they're just invisible PlayerMooks.

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* BadassBandolier: In the ''X3'' trilogy, several pirate [=NPCs=] and, somewhat confusingly, one Split NPC who sometimes gets mistaken for a pirate because of it.

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* BadassBandolier: In the ''X3'' trilogy, several pirate [=NPCs=] and, somewhat confusingly, and one Split NPC who sometimes gets mistaken for a pirate because of it.it.
* BagOfSpilling: Between ''X2'' and ''Reunion'', Julian Gardna somehow lost his entire trade empire and battlefleet.
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** [[http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=299025 There's some discussion about this in the forums.]] The fandom's consensus is that the ships ''do'' have crews; they're just invisible PlayerMooks.

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** [[http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=299025 There's some discussion about this in the forums.]] forums. The fandom's consensus is that the ships ''do'' have crews; they're just invisible PlayerMooks.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In ''Xtended Terran Conflict'', race sectors are typically color coded via background nebula. Argon sectors are blue, Boron are aquamarine/green, Teladi sectors are yellow/green, Paranid sectors are gold/yellow, Split sectors are red, and Aldrin sectors are gold/bronze. Terran and Pirate sectors have no general color scheme, however.
** In the base game, Police and Navy ships generally have altered hue and saturation. Navy ships tend to be unpainted or very dark gray, while Police alter the color (such as the Argon Police having purple highlights on their ships rather than standard red highlights). Depending on the race, it's either very noticable (such as the Split) or less so (Paranid). Boron ships don't get this treatment, as they always remain green.
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* FantasticRacism: The Paranid consider all other races to be lesser creatures because they have only two eyes. ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' really steps up the racism for several species; the Terrans consider themselves to be [[HumansAreSpecial special]] and are degrading to other races - a Terran study claims that the [[FishPeople Boron]] may be descendants of Terran aquatic life, which would therefor [[InsaneTrollLogic make the entire Boron Kingdom a Terran colony, and eligible for Terran taxes.]]



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** [[http://i.imgur.com/GTkAR.jpg OTAS Boreas M2]], a destroyer looking like something from ''{{Babylon 5}}'', and which outguns basically every ship in the game.

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** [[http://i.imgur.com/GTkAR.jpg OTAS Boreas M2]], a destroyer looking like something from ''{{Babylon 5}}'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', and which outguns basically every ship in the game.

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